Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Oliver Cromwell

  • Oliver Cromwell’s illnesses and death

    Many accounts of Cromwell’s health are unreliable and biased because they were written by royalists. What can be discerned, however, is that in London in 1628 at the age of twenty-nine, Cromwell consulted the greatest doctor of the day, Sir Theodore Mayerne, whose records indicate that he had excessive cough and phlegm, some digestive problems,…